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One of the riskiest bond ETFs on this list in terms of interest-rate risk is the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF. This is because, as the name implies, 97% or more of TLT is composed of bonds ...
The SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond ETF aims to closely match the investment performance of a high-yield bond index that includes U.S. high-yield bonds with at least one year to maturity and a ...
This bond ETF invests in high-yield bonds, which are sometimes referred to as junk bonds. The quality of the bonds in this kind of ETF ranges from decent to potentially terrible, depending on the ...
An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a type of investment fund that is also an exchange-traded product, i.e., it is traded on stock exchanges. [1] [2] [3] ETFs own financial assets such as stocks, bonds, currencies, debts, futures contracts, and/or commodities such as gold bars.
The largest ETF, as of April 2021, was the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE Arca: SPY), with about $353.4 billion in assets. The second-largest was the iShares Core S&P 500 ETF with around $270.0 billion ( NYSE Arca : IVV ), and third-largest was the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF ( NYSE Arca : VTI ) with $213.1 billion.
The iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF seeks to provide broad exposure to the U.S. investment-grade bond market. More than 70 percent of the fund is invested in AAA-rated securities. 5-year ...
iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) This fund owns exclusively long-dated U.S. Treasury bonds , with maturities of 20 to 30 years, so this fund will be quite responsive to changing rates.
The problem is that short-term bonds generally have lower interest rates than long-term bonds. So Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF has a yield of 3% versus a yield of nearly 4.3% on Vanguard Long-Term ...